Arizona gained 3,500 jobs in computer and electronics parts manufacturing over the past year, about 15 percent of all new jobs created in that field nationwide, the state’s office of economic opportunity reported Thursday.

WASILLA — Connections to Alaska and the Mat-Su Valley continue to surface as authorities investigate the theft of an airplane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Friday night, and the subsequent death of a former Wasilla man.

Last year, Green Valley snowbird Paul Huseby watched as his fellow Green Valley woodworkers returned from Nogales, teary-eyed and moved from their trip to the annual Christmas gathering north of the border at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and Children’s Clinic. Every year the woodworkers and other Green Valley crafters make presents to give to the children who come up from Mexico to see American doctors.